Funding for this project comes from an Operating Support Grant from the
New Jersey Historical Commission. The exhibition is on loan from the Jewish
Historical Society of MetroWest.

An opening reception was held on Thursday, July 9. A panel discussion
entitled Weequahic Then and Now: Bridging the Years was moderated by Sandra
King, Emmy award-winning producer of NJN's Due Process and a graduate of
Weequahic High school. Panelists included Judy Bennett -- former Weequahic
High School Alumni Association co-president and COO of Community Agencies
Corporation of NJ; Paula Borenstein -- Weequahic High School graduate;
currently doing an oral history project on Holocaust survivors who settled
in Newark; Warren Grover -- local historian and author; Wilbur McNeil --
president of the Weequahic Park Association and resident of the Weequahic
community; Carl Sharif -- former president, Newark Board of Education and
long-time Weequahic resident.